Olivia Fox Cabane is a leadership coach and speaker who has spent her career teaching charisma as a technical skill rather than a personality trait. She has worked with executives and teams at companies including Google, Deloitte, and MIT, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the United Nations. Her approach blends behavioral science, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practice, which shows clearly in the structure of her advice. She has also written about entrepreneurship and innovation in a later book coauthored with Judah Pollack. Cabane has said that her own interest in the subject grew out of struggling socially herself, which explains why the book reads less like a description of naturally gifted people and more like a manual written by someone who had to figure it out step by step.
